Forgetful Quotes

49 quotes by 42 authors

What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish… — Nick Laird
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that… — John Stuart Mill
As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive… — Oswald Chambers
Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to… — Garry Kasparov
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the… — Walter Russell
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in… — Thomas Carlyle
Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to… — H. Rider Haggard
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself. — Unknown Author
I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones. — Ryan Tedder
Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago.… — George Burns
If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains… — Max Muller
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed. — Howard Nemerov
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I… — John Keats
Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful. — Dave Eggers
No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen… — Flannery O'Connor
Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting… — Brandon Sanderson
It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose, even almost nearly… — Hilary McKay

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